THE Caley boss revealed he didn't blast his players after the 5-1 hammering, insisting he simply poured a coffee and told them it wasn't their day.

TERRY BUTCHER joked that Motherwell must have the best club doctor after his Inverness side crashed 5-1 yesterday.

The Fir Park men voiced doubts about several players in the lead-up to the match.

And Butcher said: “They must have a great doctor as every one of their players who was reportedly ill turned up today and played well. Seriously though, we never got going from the first minute to the last and we were well beaten by a good side.”

The Caley Thistle boss said he won’t be sitting through the video nasty of the game as he insists it would be too painful. It brought his side’s 10-match unbeaten run to a crashing end – and it was their worst home result in the SPL.

Butcher said: “It’s so disappointing that with a good TV audience we haven’t capitalised on it.

“We will take a quick look at the DVD but not for long as it will go in the bin and we will move on to the next game. It would take us days to go through the tape and look at all the things we did wrong.

“The players have been brilliant this season but it was like we never turned up on time. It was a 12.45pm kick-off, maybe we thought it was 3pm.

“We were nowhere near the level of performance we have reached in the last 10 games and the challenge now is to start another run.

“This was a harsh lesson for us but if we start pointing fingers at each other we’ll learn nothing. When everyone is poor there is no point criticising.

“I didn’t have a go at the players at full-time, I didn’t go mad. I just poured a coffee and told them it wasn’t us today.

“I lost the plot a bit last week by punching doors and tables but there was no point this week in analysing what went wrong as we would be there for hours.

“We got the goal early in the second half and thought we were back in the game but we chucked in another goal which gave Motherwell their two-goal cushion.

“It just wasn’t our day and Motherwell worked harder than us which is hard to say but true.”

Motherwell’s Henrik Ojamaa insists he never lost confidence amid his 20-game goal drought – as his game was improving every week.

The Estonian hotshot finally sank the ball in the back of the net – for his side’s fourth.

He said: “It was probably the worst shot I’ve had in five weeks – and yet it goes in. I feel I’m improving all the time but the goals haven’t been coming.

“But you don’t dwell on it too much and just try to improve on all areas of your game. As long as that was happening, I wasn’t too worried.”